The unknown piece
By R.B Bhaskaran, born in 1942,involves
the use of itching and silk screen done in 1997.it is a portrait of what looks
like a tooth with gums below and a bird sitting on the tooth, specifically a
crow.
It spoke to me in clear and simple
voices saying “ Tooth ache”
after an hour and a half of analysis I came to a conclusion that the crow that
sat on the top of the tooth is probably a symbolic for the cause of the tooth
ache making it heavy and hurt more.
As we all know birds fly away and come back
again causing trouble just like a cavity. The crow’s feet seem to differ. One
of the crow’s feet is built like that of a humans’. Which to me is symbolic for
human being’s burden? Crows
are always considered as bad luck.
The tooth thus becomes symbolic for life and the
crow being the burden. We live our lives as normal as we can but no matter how
much ever we try to shoo the crows away they come back to stick like candy and
ruin the tooth which only time can heal. If I were to name the piece, I would
name it “the tooth ache”, because it can be interpreted in different ways, as a
small child’s candy causing a cavity or the fact that life itself acts as a
tooth.
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